Julie Denning wrote:The FIDE Regulations don't seem to specify what happens beyond a first ballot, but I have put this question to Malcolm who informed me that the bottom candidate drops out. No doubt Nick Faulks can also confirm this.

NickFaulks wrote:No I can't, but I am pursuing it. After the huge legal costs wasted on haggling with Kasparov's American lawyers in Istanbul on every word of the Statutes, surely this basic point was not missed?

On previous occasions when there have been three candidates and none of them has won an overall majority on the first ballot, the third placed candidate has indeed dropped out.

However, the last such occasion was in 1982. As has been pointed out several times, the Statutes have changed considerably since then.

FIDE Electoral Regulations wrote:3.7 For all elections a majority of the votes cast, not counting abstentions, shall be required. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken. If three or more persons are nominated for the same offices or office, the candidates that receive 50% plus one of the votes cast, are elected on the first ballot. Thereafter, the candidates receiving most votes on the second ballot are elected to the vacant number of offices. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken...

Don't know if anyone has said it yet but (according to the Electoral Regulations) each Presidential Ticket must be nominated by at least five member federations. So: the ECF has until early Tuesday afternoon (3 July, 17:00 Athens time) to decide whether to nominate one of the tickets.

FIDE Electoral Regulations wrote:3.7 For all elections a majority of the votes cast, not counting abstentions, shall be required. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken. If three or more persons are nominated for the same offices or office, the candidates that receive 50% plus one of the votes cast, are elected on the first ballot. Thereafter, the candidates receiving most votes on the second ballot are elected to the vacant number of offices. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken...

... which doesn't seem clear to me.

Yes I had seen that and there is no mention of a candidate being eliminated after the 1st ballot

So 1st ballot you need a majority of those voting

2nd ballot you just need the most votes

3rd ballot only applies if the 2nd ballot is a tie

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FIDE Electoral Regulations wrote:3.7 For all elections a majority of the votes cast, not counting abstentions, shall be required. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken. If three or more persons are nominated for the same offices or office, the candidates that receive 50% plus one of the votes cast, are elected on the first ballot. Thereafter, the candidates receiving most votes on the second ballot are elected to the vacant number of offices. If there is a tie, the voting is repeated until the tie is broken...

... which doesn't seem clear to me.

Yes I had seen that and there is no mention of a candidate being eliminated after the 1st ballot

So 1st ballot you need a majority of those voting

2nd ballot you just need the most votes

3rd ballot only applies if the 2nd ballot is a tie

Mick,

I agree entirely with your reading of the wording, which implies that for the second vote to be any different to the first, some delegates will have had to switch their votes. This is why I discussed it with Malcolm, who gave me his understanding, as I reported previously, that the lowest scoring candidate in any vote dropped out for the next vote - but I agree that this is not obvious from the wording of the Regulation.